Quan Barry, author of THE UNVEILING- an in-person Boswell event

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Wed Oct 15 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

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Boswell Book Company | Milwaukee, WI

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Quan Barry, author of THE UNVEILING- an in-person Boswell event
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Boswell Book Company presents an evening Quan Barry, award-winning author of We Ride Upon Sticks, who visits with her new novel, The Unveiling.

from Boswell. Signed copies are available on most event preorders. If you have a personalization request, enter it in "order comments" at checkout. Please note: signed copies will ship AFTER the event. Remember to select “In Store Pickup” at check out to avoid unnecessary shipping fees on books you intend to pick up at the event.

Striker isn't entirely sure she should be on this luxury Antarctic cruise. A Black film scout, her mission is to photograph potential locations for a big-budget movie about Ernest Shackleton's doomed expedition. Along the way, she finds private if cautious amusement in the behavior of both the native wildlife and the group of wealthy, mostly white tourists who have chosen to spend Christmas on the Weddell Sea. But when a kayaking excursion goes horribly wrong, Striker and a group of survivors become stranded on a remote island along the Antarctic Peninsula. Gripping, lucid, and imaginative, The Unveiling is an astonishing ghost story about the masks we wear and the truths we hide even from ourselves.

“Mesmerizing and delicate . . . A dazzling achievement . . . The rhythms are more like prayer than prose, and the puzzlelike plot yields revelations in unassuming sentences that a skimming eye could easily miss . . . The unlikeliness of the novel is exactly its magic.”—New York Times, on When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East

Quan Barry is the author of eight books of fiction and poetry including When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East; We Ride Upon Sticks, winner of the 2020 ALA Alex Award; and She Weeps Each Time You're Born. Her most recent poetry collection, Auction, was named one of the five best collections of 2023 by the New York Times. Her first play, The Mytilenean Debate, premiered in 2022. She is the Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Boswell Book Company, 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, United States

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